2006-11-12 14:10:35 · 4 answers · asked by biplab m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the visible light spectrum is broken down into the colors of the rainbow, without a prism, the colors you see are percieved simultaneously by your eye, which shows up as white to you.
2006-11-12 14:13:58 · answer #1 · answered by savage 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our light is yellow. and it's because for one we have a yellow sun(medium type sun or star). It's due to the influence of the suns rays by earth's asmophere, the gasses(such as oxigen,)liquids(water) and dust which cover the earths skies.
Most street lights are high pressure sodium which gives oif fa yellowish glow, this supposely the clothest thing to sunlight and easiest on the eyes. But white light does give a stronger light.
2006-11-12 22:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't. Light comes in all different colors. These colors are actually different wavelengths. Light is a continous spectrum which includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultra violet light, x-rays, gamma rays, and many more "rays". Most wavelengths we can't see.
Of the ones we can, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple (at least this is how we percieve them), when they mix, we perceive it as white light.
2006-11-13 03:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think it is white - or that it is light at all.
What we mean to be "light" is caused by energy photons stimulating of nerve cells on the retina of the eye. Some species see in the infrared area.
Colour is a conceptual idea that we invented to put some meaning to the stimuli.
2006-11-12 22:16:44 · answer #4 · answered by Scarp 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋